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This originally appeared in The Point. To subscribe, click here. The embodiment of the culture of Long Island, a place we all know is truly different from the rest of the country, has gone through many iterations. The ’90s were the Joey Buttacuocco era, the autobody shop owner who had an affair with a certain Lolita. And entertainers like Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Crystal, Alec Baldwin and now Kate McKinnon have come to define our genius at making fun of ourselves and brilliantly razzing others.

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State Sen. Kemp Hannon is making a last-ditch attempt to derail the LIRR third track project. Hannon has introduced a bill in the State Senate — S-6776 — that would seemingly transfer the $1.95 billion in funding for the long-awaited project to developing “advanced signal and communication technologies” on the railroad and mass transit. But the third track project includes a modernized signal system; it is an intricate part of the new plan.

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Rita Ciolli Rita Ciolli is editor of the Editorial and Opinion pages of Newsday and amNewYork. Donald Trump wasted little time after his presidential win in announcing he would reappoint public corruption prober Preet Bharara as U.S. attorney for the Southern District, but there's been no word on who will run the Eastern District prosecutor's office.

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